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| | The breaker panel would be an LV item that takes in current and provides multiple outputs, each with a breaker (maybe adjustable trip points?). The idea would be you place this box somewhere (probably near a transformer), and it provides, say 5 outputs, each rated for 10A. You feed it with a heavy cable, and it gives you safe outputs to run on standard cable. It would effectively function as an LV-LV bridge, separating the networks. This would give you isolation and protection should something get shorted/bridged to HV directly. | | The breaker panel would be an LV item that takes in current and provides multiple outputs, each with a breaker (maybe adjustable trip points?). The idea would be you place this box somewhere (probably near a transformer), and it provides, say 5 outputs, each rated for 10A. You feed it with a heavy cable, and it gives you safe outputs to run on standard cable. It would effectively function as an LV-LV bridge, separating the networks. This would give you isolation and protection should something get shorted/bridged to HV directly. |
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| | === Kill-A-Watt Meter === | | === Kill-A-Watt Meter === |
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| | === UPS === | | === UPS === |
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| − | Basically an APC, but functions as an LV-LV bridge like the breaker panel, while also allowing battery backup for small circuits. I would imagine this would isolate data between the input and output. | + | Basically an APC, but functions as an LV-LV bridge like the breaker panel, while also allowing battery backup for small circuits. |
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| − | === Data Bridge ===
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| − | Basically a network over power adapter. I use these in my house. The data network is added as a signal on top of the actual voltage in the power lines. It takes data + voltage on one side, and gives data only on the other. In game, it would serve as a data network pass-through without connecting the two networks for power purposes. It could be used to bridge data from HV to LV networks, or maintain a separate data network from all power.
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| − | == Data Network ==
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| − | The data network would extend as far as the power network goes, with some devices also functioning as data bridges. Electrical bridges (APC, Transformer, UPS, Breaker Box) would have distinct input and output networks (though the breaker box, with multiple outputs, would have one single output network shared on all outputs). The data bridge mentioned earlier would allow for user-defined data connections across networks without having a power connection between the networks.
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| − | With an example of automated solar, this would allow the logic circuit to run in an LV network and a data bridge connected to the HV network would allow it to write tilt percentages to the solar array.
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| − | == Examples ==
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| − | === Survival Start ===
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| − | [[File:Survival Electricity.png|right|thumb|New Electrical Proposal, survival starter setup]]
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| − | We already have the pieces used here. Nothing really changes, and it shouldn't. Actual numbers here are for demonstration purposes only and may not actually reflect a balanced system.
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| − | === With Stationary Battery and Transformer ===
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| − | [[File:FancierElectrical.png|thumb|right|A Fancier Electrical System]]
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| − | All the pieces are already here for this, too. Lets you use standard cable on the HV side, but heavy cable is needed on the LV side if devices could sink more than 10A total.
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| − | === The Ultimate Setup ===
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| − | [[File:AwesomeElectrical.png|thumb|right|Ultimate Electrical, showing breaker boxes and UPSes.]]
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| − | This setup uses multiple batteries to store lots of potential power and a huge solar array. The details for generation are not so important. What this shows is creating two segmented LV networks using two transformers. Each transformer feeds two breaker boxes (each capable of supplying 5 10A LV circuits). It also shows one breaker box being used for important things and so the user has decided to put a UPS on those things with a small cell. This would help those devices stay up through a brownout, for example at night when the solar is not generating, if the stationary battery source capacity were exceeded.
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